EFL Trends 1:  Methods, Materials, and Strategies Syllabus

Barbara Dowling

 

Date

Topics

Guest Speakers

Readings and Other Assignments

Mon. 5/16

9:00-11:00

Ed. 129

• Course overview

• Questionnaire

• Exploring beliefs & attitudes

• Defining CLT (Communicative Language Teaching)

 

Teaching by Principles, pp. 13-17; 34-35

• Fill out EFL Trends Questionnaire

• Optional: Teaching by Principles, pp. 16-37

Wed. 5/18

9:00 Ed. 129

9:45 (?)--

Leave for site visit

• An Immersion Program: A

Case Study

• Trip to Garfield Elementary

School

Jerry Bryan

Jan Byers

Other staff at

   Garfield

• Thompson, “Some Misconceptions about

Communicative Language Teaching” (handout)—Read your assigned section; summarize on the colored notecard

Teaching by Principles, pp. 42-46

• Optional: Teaching by Principles, pp. 176-186

 

Mon., 5/23

9:00-11:00

Ed. 129

• Teaching multilevel classes

• Making interaction work

• Role of vocabulary in ELT

 

 

 

Teaching by Principles, pp. 375-380

• Optional:  “Vocabulary Learning and Teaching” (handout)

• Aslan, Dowling, Kilickaya, “Words, Words, Words:

Making Vocabulary Learning More Fun” (handout)

Wed. 5/25

9:00-11:00

Meet in Edu-

Cation 406,

ELI Learning

Center

• Focus on the Learner I: Learning Styles and Strategies

• How to Set Up and Manage Multimodal Learning Centers

• Design Your Own Language Learning Center

Donna Shaw

 

(in the afternoon

meet staff at CV

High School and

LP Middle School)

Teaching by Principles, pp. 214-216—Fill out the Extroversion/Introversion test

• Optional: Teaching by Principles, pp. 210-213; continued

in the middle of p. 216

Mon. 5/30

(no class)

Memorial Day Holiday

 

 

 

Wed. 6/1

(no class)

NAFSA Conference, Seattle, WA

 

 

 

Mon. 6/6

9:00-11:00

Ed. 129

• Focus on the Learner II:

Cooperative Learning

Don and Maxine

   Prickel

• Ellis and Whalen, “ Keys to Cooperative Learning: 35 Ways

to Keep Kids Responsible, Challenged, and Most of All,

Cooperative (handout)

Wed. 6/8

9:00-11:00

Ed. 129

• Making vocabulary learning fun

• Teaching Large Multilevel

Classes

• Wrap-up of Trends 1

 

 

Teaching Large Multilevel Classes, pp. 7-15 “Eleven priniciples of coping with large multilevel classes”

•  Optional: Teaching Large Multilevel Classes, pp. 1-6  “Introduction” and “Benefits and challenges of the large multilevel class”